Instincts and Values
"Thanks, Cody. I feel really better now." Suzy said with a forced smile as she snuggled against his chest feeling remarkably better and safe, like as long as she remained where she was everything would be okay. Perhaps it was cowardly to block everything else out but at the moment she needed to pretend she and Cody and their digimon were the only ones there and that there was nothing wrong. A big stretch but she'd always had one hell of an imagination if she did say so herself. She wished Cody lived in her world and went to her school. He was so much better then the other boys at her school who would have patted her on the head then run away in fear of possible tears and clinging.
"I'm glad." Cody managed to get out as he held her carefully as though she were made of fragile glass and might break at any moment if he wasn't careful. He'd never really held a girl before other then occasionally hugging a friend or a member of his family. But he'd never had anyone but his small cousins in his lap and even that was rare because they were always moving and not cuddling against him. But it was rather nice having Suzy in his lap. He liked the way she was snuggled against him, trusting him to take care of her. It made him feel good, like he was her hero and that she trusted him enough to put her faith in him. Speaking of which he needed to reassure her, her voice was still a little too shaky for his liking. "And everything will turn out all right, Suzy. I'm sure of it. We just have to believe it, do our best to make sure that we don't give up until we succeed. Maybe things won't go exactly the way we want but as long as we do our best that's what matters. We work together there's nothing we can't do..well besides get Kari and T.K. together because everyone but Davis has been trying to do that for years with no luck" Cody said with a chuckle, pleased when she laughed along with him.
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"You're absolutely right that we'll get out of this and you just let me at this T.K. And Kari and I'll show you how real matchmaking is done. If they were meant to be together you can bet I can get them together no matter now shy or dense they are." Suzy said with a slight nod and a more genuine small smile as she cuddled her digimon against her much like a child would hold a teddy bear or stuffed animal. She was feeling better but she felt better with Cody and Lopmon there. And Cody's digimon of course who was currently sitting beside them with a concerned look on his cute face. Reaching out Suzy patted his head before continuing. "I'm glad that you dropped in, you two. I don't know what I would have done without you guys here to cheer me up." Turning in his lap she set Lopmon on the ground then wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him into a great big hug, laying her head on his shoulder contentedly. "Thanks, Cody."
Speechless Cody returned the hug and tried not to think of how soft she was against him or how her hair smelled so nice. His arms shaking just a bit Cody wrapped his arms around her small waist and hugged her back. Watching them Armidillomon and Lopmon grinned at each other happily, both pleased with this turn of events as they high fived.
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A Little Later
Walking along hand in hand Suzy and Cody chatted about this and that while Lopmon and Armadillomon walked on the other sides of their partners. The two humans had decided that it had been time to give Antylamon a break and they didn't mind doing the walking even though it was a bit too warm out for comfort. Luckily they were both dressed for the warm weather and walking through the prairie like area Suzy would have given anything for a popsicle stand to appear out of nowhere. Well she'd rather her sister and the others pop out but a popsicle was a close second at the moment. They were both into the martial arts and shared similar taste in movies even though they didn't know any of the same movies so they had to tell each other about them which proved to be fun.
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"So then anyway Mina up and castrates the bastard and then he goes "If that were permanent I'd be very upset." I laughed so hard I nearly dumped my pop all over my brother. But the best part was the parts with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Suzy said as she cracked up just thinking about the movie. "The movie may have been a bit weak in certain areas but it had some awesome liners that definitely made it worth the watching."
"Obviously." Cody said with a chuckle as he listened to her tell him about a movie called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which sounded like a pretty good movie to him. It was too bad he'd never see it since it was from his world and not hers. But who knows maybe some day he could visit her world and see the movies she described and meet the people she'd told him so much about. He wanted to see if Calumon really was like a four year old in a half candy shop half toy store all the time and just how good Rika was with the digimon card game. He'd like to get cards for that matter and make his own deck, learn to play the game. Of course the odds of that happening were likely unbelievably low but there was nothing wrong with dreaming and hoping he would.
"Hey, Armadillomon. Do you hear that?" Lopmon said after she'd circled around Suzy and Cody to Armadillomon's side as she leaned down to whisper in his ear.
"Hmm, let's see." Armadillomon said as he stopped and placed his ear against the ground, closing his eyes as he concentrated on the vibrations of the earth while his other ear strained to hear any sound in the air. "Yeah I do..something big is coming and coming straight at us and fast. Hey, Cody, Suzy. Something is coming towards us and I have a real bad feeling in my gut about it."
"How big are we talking about?" Cody demanded to know, squeezing Suzy's hand gently as he looked down at the two digimon getting a bad feeling in his own gut.
"Really, really big." Lopmon said with her ears twitching as her senses went on over drive as the sounds got louder. "As in worth Bio-merging big, Suzy. Whatever it is it's powerful and I can sense its evilness even from here."
"Bio-merge?" Cody asked as he looked over at Suzy questioningly. Lopmon had made this bio-merging thing sound like calling out the big guns. "Is that anything like combining two digimon together because I've only ever been able to do that with T.K.'s digimon. "
"Well it's the merging of two beings but it's the merging of Tamer with her digimon meaning Lopmon and I becoming one person. It's very draining and dangerous so it's very rare that we have to do it. When were combined into Flurmon we could both be deleted and every injury she sustains I sustain." Suzy said with a dead serious look on her face as she retrieved her D-Arc and reached into her pocket to pull out her cards. "If Lopmon says this digimon warrants the risk then that pretty much indicates we could and likely are in a hell of a lot of trouble if this thing is coming to pick a fight." Suzy added as she pulled out the card she needed, slipping the rest back into her pocket.
"You can actually become a digimon? That's actually possible?" Cody said as he gapped at her in surprise before composing himself as a huge creature came into view, stomping towards them like a big, black storm cloud in the shape of an ogre type thing. "If we survive this you're going to have to tell me how that's possible."
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"Will do. Lopmon, bio-merge activation." Suzy said as she raised the card above her head then with a sweeping gesture brought the card down and slid it through the D-Arc, a pink light appearing all around her as she and Lopmon merged into one. "Lopmon bio-merge to..Flurmon." When the light had dimmed there was a figure standing beside Cody that he'd never seen before. Standing at about five ft 10 now the figure had long brown hair to her waist with the top half of her face covered by a sort of brown and pink hat that resembled the top of Lopmon's head. The figure wore arm length glovers with dangerous looking pink spikes down the sides to go with the similar brown knee high boots the figure wore with the same spikes along its sides. She wore a tight brown dress the color of Lopmon's fur and it had pink stripes along the sides to complete the theme.
"Wow..Suzy? Lopmon?" Cody asked hesitantly as he looked up at her thinking that that had to be one of the coolest things he'd ever seen. What would he look like if he did the bio-merge thing with Armadillomon? Now there was an interesting thought.
"It's us." The digimon said with a smile that was pure Suzy and put Cody at ease. It was still Suzy only looking a little different and wearing a lot more pink and brown. As if to end the ease there were suddenly the sounds of things flying towards them and Cody barely had time to blink before Flurmon had picked him and Armadillomon up and ran at a dizzying speed out of the way with one under each arm. Staring behind him Cody watched the area they'd been standing in explode into flames and a very deep crater. Putting them down Flurmon stood protectively between the large coming form and her friends. "Now evolve him as far as he'll go and then we have some ass kicking to do. I'll hold him off as long as possible." Flurmon said with a nod before racing towards the figure at a blurring speed so that she was nothing but a blinding mix of brown and pink.
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Arriving in front of the huge thing Flurmon stared up at it with her hands on her hips having to crane her neck up high to look up at what looked like a huge Orc from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In other words he was butt ugly and smelled unbelievably bad. "You've got ten seconds to apologize for nearly blowing us up so be quick about it and I just might forgive you and let it go, mister." Flurmon said as she tapped her foot having a feeling he was more likely to "accidentally" drop that huge club he was holding on her then give her said apology.
"Haa well then you'll be waiting a very long time since I was sent to kill you." The ogre type thing said with a chuckle that was grating to Flurmon's sensitive ears. "Not that you'll be much of a challenge. Now what's say you just stand there and we'll make this quick and as painless as possible."
"Sorry but my mommy always said not to listen to strangers." Flurmon said with a smile before she turned and began running around and around the digimon is a dizzying blur so that he was becoming unsteady on his feet trying to keep her in view. When she felt he was sufficiently dizzy Flurmon came to a stop and with a mighty bounce jumped up high enough to look him in the eyes as she let lose her attack. "Flying Fury Attack." Flurmon called out as she burst into rapid fire punches and kicks to his ugly scrunched up face.
Meanwhile
The Tamers and the Digidestined had stopped for a small break and were resting under trees and whatever shade they could find while they replenished their water from a nearby stream which wasn't very big at all but was better then nothing. The digimon were all eager to drink up and the humans were right behind them before moving to the comfort of shade to nibble on what food they had with them. Renamon and Patamon were able to find some berry bushes and soon everyone was picking and eating what they picked. Cyberdramon also came back from his scouting with some apple like fruit which he handed over gruffly before going back to watching from a distance not liking to be around crowds at all. They hadn't been there long when Cyberdramon reported coming trouble and quickly packing up they all raced to the top of the nearby hill to look down to see what looked like several dozen digimon coming towards them with a black aura surrounding them that was definitely a foreshadowing of what was to come. They were all of varying levels and types but they all shared a darkness and a statement of evil intent.
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"Oh boy...this is not going to be fun at all." Tai said whistling under his breath as he looked at the others then back to the digimon. "I'm thinking it's not a coincidence that they're coming straight at them and looking like they aren't here to welcome us to the neighborhood."
"Bio-merging is gonna be required on this one..and deletion." Ryo said looking at Rika who nodded in agreement. They were both aware of how that was going to rest with the other members of the party. "I'd suggest all individuals without digimon start running back towards the woods and finding a good place to hide. Calumon you'll go with them to protect them and we'll need someone with a digimon to go with them to protect them. Kari and T.K... would you guys do it?" Ryo asked picking the two he felt were the least likely to be able to handle battle with an ease but were tough enough that if push came to shove they'd do the job.
"We'll do it." T.K. said with a thumbs up and Kari nodded as well. T.K. realized what Ryo was doing and appreciated it as he evolved Patamon to Pegasusmon so that they could get out of there quicker. Lifting Alice onto the digimon T.K. got on his digimon's back as well before taking off with Kari right behind him with the rest of their charges. Flying high into the air they were waved off as they disappeared from sight.
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"Well I did want to see this bio-merging you were talking about Ryo but I can't say I wanted to see it like this." Izzy said as he watched Alice fly out of a sight and hoped that he would be seeing her again soon. "I guess we should all start evolving to our strongest levels before they get here, huh?"
"Looks like." Tai agreed as he shoved his hands in his pockets as he rocked on his heels. "Time to save the Digital World again it seems. Agumon, time to get bigger and badder." Tai said as he pulled out his digi-vice and activated it. "Agumon digivolve to War Greymon."
"Tentomon digivolve to Yanmamon."
"Renamon bio-merge to Sakuyamon."
"Cyberdramon bio-merge to Justimon."
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A slight distance away Kurokitsunemon watched with interest as they all changed into interesting forms, especially his cousin Renamon and that dragon like hunk of metal as they seemed to combine with the humans they were with. He'd never heard of such a thing and he wondered how it was possible and why the humans would do it for that matter. From what he could tell their data was combined now which meant that whatever damage the digimon sustained the human would be just as damaged. Fascinating. And there were some missing too..already lost in the struggle perhaps? No, they wouldn't be so calm and collected if they'd already lost comrades in a prior battle before he'd arrived. Hmm the others were obviously hiding somewhere or perhaps engaged in battle somewhere else but he didn't sense that. The blonde one that wore black all the time wasn't here..where was she? She was suppose to be here, Kurokitsunemon thought feeling a sense of fear and dread even though she was no concern of his. But where was she..he had to know. Bounding from the tree perch he'd been resting in Kurokitsunemon began hopping from branch to branch as he went off to find her knowing that his heart wouldn't stop pounding until he knew for sure that she was safe. It didn't matter anymore that he didn't like anyone be they human or digimon. This girl was different and he needed to find her..NOW.
In the Tamer World
Hypnos was in an uproar and everyone had long since over dosed on coffee and vending machine snacks as they tried to figure out what the hell had happened to their Tamers and where the hell they were. From what they had figured it would appear that Alice, Rika, Suzy and sister were not in the Real World or the Digimon World they knew. However it would appear that they were in an alternate part of the Digital World according to their information and unfortunately they had no idea how the hell to get them back. Jenyu was driving everyone crazy demanding for information and asking questions, the worried father currently being kept busy to give the techno geeks room to work. Alice's father was handling it a bit better having opted to channel all his worries into getting his daughter back by working like a maniac on ideas to get them back. If where ever they were going was so far away they needed help sending themselves there then it was quite likely they couldn't come back or that there was nothing they could do to get them back.
